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  • How Population Falls

    The Consequences of a Shrinking Humanity

    by Danny Dorling ...
    In the 2080s, global population numbers will start to drop for the first time: what is to be done? by leading geographer and author of The Next CrisisFor the first time in human history, the global population is predicted to peak in sixty years time and then decline permanently. This shift began in the 1960s when worldwide birth rates started falling, and over half the world's population now has ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

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  • Rule Britannia

    Brexit and the End of Empire

    by Danny Dorling ...
    Things fall apart when empires crumble. This time, we think, things will be different. They are not. This time, we are told, we will become great again. We will not. In this new edition of the hugely successful Rule Britannia, Danny Dorling and Sally Tomlinson argue that the vote to leave the EU was the last gasp of the old empire working its way out of the British psyche. Fuelled by a misplaced ... Read more

    $9.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Shattered Nation

    Inequality and the Geography of A Failing State

    by Danny Dorling ...
    Britain is broken, but how did it become so divided?Britain was once the leading economy in Europe; it is now the most unequal. In A Shattered Nation, leading geographer and author of Inequality and the 1% shows that we are growing further and further apart. Visiting sites across the British Isles and exploring the social fissures that have emerged, Danny Dorling exposes a new geography of ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • Injustice

    Why Social Inequality Still Persists

    by Danny Dorling ...
    In the five years since the first edition of Injustice there have been devastating increases in poverty, hunger and destitution in the UK. Globally, the richest 1% have never held a greater share of world wealth, while the share of most of the other 99% has fallen in the last five years, with more and more people in debt, especially the young. Economic inequalities will persist and continue to ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

  • The Equality Effect

    by Danny Dorling ...
    The Equality Effect is almost magical. In more equal countries, human beings are generally happier and healthier, there is less crime, more creativity and higher educational attainment. Danny Dorling delivers all evidence that is now so overwhelming that it should be changing politics and society all over the world.For the past four decades, many countries, including the US and the UK, have chosen ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD

  • The Next Crisis

    What We Think About the Future

    by Danny Dorling ...
    WHAT THE FUTURE LOOKS LIKE TO MOST PEOPLE. AND WHAT WE CAN DO ABOUT IT.Every month, surveys around the world ask people to tell them what they are really thinking. The results are at times reassuring, some-times chilling and often unexpected. In The Next Crisis, leading UK geographer Danny Dorling unpacks polling data and shows that our global crises are often very different from what’s in the ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • Why Demography Matters

    by Danny Dorling, Stuart Gietel-Basten ...
    Demography is not destiny. As Giacomo Casanova explained over two centuries ago: 'There is no such thing as destiny. We ourselves shape our own lives.'Today we are shaping them and our societies more than ever before. Globally, we have never had fewer children per adult: our population is about to stabilize, though we do not know when or at what number, or what will happen after that. It will be ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Inequality and the 1%

    by Danny Dorling ...
    Since the great recession hit in 2008, the 1% has only grown richer while the rest find life increasingly tough. The gap between the haves and the have-nots has turned into a chasm. While the rich have found new ways of protecting their wealth, everyone else has suffered the penalties of austerity.But inequality is more than just economics. Being born outside the 1% has a dramatic impact on a ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD

  • Geography: Ideas in Profile

    by Danny Dorling, Carl Lee ...
    Series series Ideas in Profile - small books, big ideas
    Ideas in Profile: Small Introductions to Big TopicsGeography gives shape to our innate curiosity; cartography is older than writing. Channelling our twin urges to explore and understand, geographers uncover the hidden connections of human existence, from infant mortality in inner cities to the decision-makers who fly overhead in executive jets, from natural disasters to over-use of fossil fuels.In ... Read more

    $11.79 CAD

  • No-Nonsense Guide to Equality

    by Danny Dorling ...
    Series Book 6 - No-Nonsense Guides
    A wide-ranging exploration of why inequality persists and what can be done about it, the No-Nonsense Guide to Equality discusses the positive effects that equality can have, using examples and case studies from across the globe. It examines the lessons of history and covers race, gender and ethnicity, age, and wealth. Danny Dorling considers, realistically, just how equal it is possible to be, the ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • Seven Children

    Inequality and Britain's Next Generation

    by Danny Dorling ...
    Britons all getting poorer. What does that look like for British children, and their life chances? If we found seven typical 5-year-olds to represent today's UK, who would they be? What would their stories reveal? Seven Children is about injustice and hope. Danny Dorling's highly original book constructs seven "average" children from millions of statistics--each child symbolizing the very middle ... Read more

    $20.39 CAD

  • Slowdown

    The End of the Great Acceleration—and Why It's Good for the Planet, the Economy, and Our Lives

    by Danny Dorling ...
    The end of our high-growth world was underway well before COVID-19 arrived. In this powerful and timely argument, Danny Dorling demonstrates the benefits of a larger, ongoing societal slowdownDrawing from an incredibly rich trove of global data, this groundbreaking book reveals that human progress has been slowing down since the early 1970s. Danny Dorling uses compelling visualizations to ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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